Earth And High Heaven
by Graham Gwethalyn
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Vars, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
McClelland & Stewart. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1966. Mass market. Mass Market Paperback with a sound binding, bright & clean interior. A name plate on the inside of the front cover. Cover rubbing & edgewear. "Earth and High Heaven was the most successful Canadian novel of its time, winning many awards and prizes, including the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in 1945. "Earth and High Heaven is above all an attack on Canadian small-mindedness and hypocrisy during the 1940s. " ; New Canadian Library; Vol. 13; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 254 pages .
Synopsis
Earth and High Heaven was a 1944 novel by Gwethalyn Graham. It was the first Canadian novel to reach number one on The New York Times bestseller list and stayed on the list for 37 weeks, selling 125 000 copies in the United States that year. Set in Montreal, Quebec during World War II, the novel portrays a romance between Erica Drake, a young woman from a wealthy Protestant family in Westmount, and Marc Reiser, a Jewish lawyer and soldier from Northern Ontario.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bytown Bookery (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 27366
- Title
- Earth And High Heaven
- Author
- Graham Gwethalyn
- Format/Binding
- Mass market
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- McClelland & Stewart
- Date Published
- 1966
- Keywords
- Fiction > Romance, War Fiction, War Stories
- Bookseller catalogs
- Romance; Culture; War; Family & Relationships;
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- Mass Market
- Mass market paperback books, or MMPBs, are printed for large audiences cheaply. This means that they are smaller, usually 4...
- New
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.